"Oldboy" Remake Cancelled

According to Bloody-Disgusting, the remake of the Japanese film "Oldboy," will actually not be remade.

Director Justin Lin (Annapolis, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift) has been attached to the project for some time, and now he states that it looks like it will not happen. He currently has a lot of other projects in the works and that the only way he'd make it is if everything "gelled" together right. Lin loves the original film, and wouldn't want to disrespect it.

While this doesn't mean that the remake will never be attempted again, it does mean that Lin wants no part of it. For anyone that has seen his past work, that might not be so bad.

"Oldboy" is about a recently paroled middle-aged man, who spent 15 years in prison without any explanation as to why he was jailed, seeks revenge on those who conspired against him.